Pretty good question. Both are revered by the arthouse crowd and hardcore film nerds(don't forget: Tokyo Godfathers was an Oscar Nominee back then) and those guys tend to be massive buyfags. Both of them always got much love and support from the west.

After the first people realized the similarities between Paprika and Inception, Kon wrote a blog post about how almost every work of art is influenced by an earlier one.Tokyo Godfathers is also based on the Three Godfathers(like hundreds of other movies). In the end, the execution is the important thing.

>>113433770Who else do we have that even rivals him anymore? Miyazaki? Oshii I guess? ABe has some impressive work too but he's more of an animator/artist than a director, and afaik he's been on hiatus for years now.

It really kind of depresses me how slim the stock is of directors and artists like him in the industry. In all honestly the biggest problem with the anime industry, creatively speaking, is the severe lack of quality writers and directors of comparable caliber.

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